People pay their last respects to veteran playback singer S Janaki during the public homage at Maharaja’s College Grounds, in Mysuru, Karnataka.
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Legendary singer S. Janaki was cremated with full state honours at a farmhouse in Kaniyanahundi near Mysuru on Sunday (July 12, 2026) evening.
Ms. Janaki’s granddaughter Vydyula performed the last rites in the presence of her close relatives, friends and a large number of admirers.
Earlier, Ms Janaki’s body was brought in a vehicle to the farmhouse in HD Kote taluk of Mysuru district from Maharaja’s College grounds, where it was kept for public viewing.
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Extensive arrangements had been made at the farmhouse, with barricades erected from the approach road to the place of cremation.
Adequate police personnel and deployed to maintain tight security arrangements.
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During a career spanning more than six decades, she worked with successive generations of composers, beginning with T. Chalapathi Rao, who introduced her to films, and later M.D. Parthasarathy, G. Ramanathan, M.B. Srinivasan, K.V. Mahadevan and M.S. Viswanathan in the Tamil film industry. Having sung thousands of songs across multiple languages for nearly half a century, when the Government of India conferred the Padma Bhushan upon S. Janaki in 2013, she rejected the award, describing it as having come too late for her.
Published – July 12, 2026 06:20 pm IST
